All In One Week!!!

Alright, so let's begin with last saturday. Here is a picture of me at the Hoedown!!! That's right, I am practicing cracking the whip! WaPshh! After the hoedown, which had amazing barbeque food, amazing, I had quite an adventure, riding on an airboat and catching alligators was included!!! It was awesome. Here is us on the airboat.

And here is something that was on the airboat with us !!!!

It was all very exciting!!! I have touched a wild alligator, the biggest one we saw was 6 ft, but they say that the biggest ones seen in this area can be 12 ft. Holy Cow. It was amazing! For St. Patrick's Day my roomies and I and some friends made a green breakfast and then headed of to Magic Kingdom all decked out for St. Patricks Day! We were a sight to be seen in green, and also thank you mom for the socks you sent us, they were utilized to their fullest.

Then me and chelsea got to go wake boarding for a day and we also got to try some deep fried southern gator!!! It really was good, but what isn't good that is deep fried. I have never eaten so much fried food in my life as I did at this place, but hey even though it made me sick later, it was worth it to say that I have eaten fried gator and catfish.

And tonight we went to the beach of the Grand Floridian resort and roasted smores, if you bring your own mallows and crackers, it is free fun. Plus they show a movie every night right there on the beach with a campfire for free!!! They were yummy smores, then after the smores when we all smelt like smoke and campfire, we decided hey why not go to the Single Adults Dance they were having that night, I mean who doesn't like a girl who smells like the great outdoors eh? So we danced the night away. Wow, now doesn't that sound like a good week or what? By the way, check out my mallow? I mean it is practically perfect in every way, but hey that is how I roll, why else would my blog's name be merry bobbins, well until next time! As Kip would say Peace Out!!!!!!

I Wish I Never Had To Leave This Magical Place

Ha Ha, I think only Wheatley's will know what song my blog title is from. I love it here in Florida and am having a blast, it is so hard for me to blog because I just don't have the time, that and the fact that I get very frustrated when I try uploading pictures and they don't turn out how I want them. April is coming and that only means three things... Easter, current BYU students will leave and new ones will arrive, and my family is coming to visit!!! I can't wait. I visited the beach for the first time here in Florida two days ago. We went to Cocoa Beach. It was nice and the weather was perfect! Epcot is getting ready for the Flower and Garden festival which will continue into May, in the picture above are some of the gorgeous flowers that are just starting to bloom. Work is still work, and very hard and extremely stressful. The hours are late and long, I usually end up coming home at two in the morning but in the end I think it will all be worth it! Here I am with some of my friends! Ha Ha, how cool is that.

Family don't worry, the itinerary is constantly being updated, I now can tell everyone what attractions are actually worth riding and waiting for at Walt Disney World. I can't wait to see Josh and Savannah experience the rides and shows. I have decided that the shows are the best thing at Disney. Philhar Magic, Fantasmic, Beauty & The Beast, The Lion King, and Finding Nemo are all amazing! And the weather is finally starting to get warm and act like Florida weather. Hooray. Family I can't wait for you to come and experience all of the fun I have been enjoying! See ya soon!

Tinker Bell!!!

So do can see that little fairy in the picture just to the left? Well if you can you are looking at my new roommate Tinker Bell! Or as we call her Chelsea. She is moving into the spare bed in our apartment! I love the new Tinker Bell movie it is so so cute, for those of you who have not watched it yet, it is a good one! Meeting the fairies here at Disney World requires you to wait in a 75 min. line, but not for us. We got special celebrity treatment and were taken straight into Pixie Hollow. It is so cute in there. And Tink, aka Chelsea, did an amazing job as well. It seems to rain here on all of

my days off, but it didn't get me down yesterday. My friend Jenica and I still braved the rain and went to Hollywood Studios, where I discovered they have a really good chicken curry bowl! Yum. Then we spent the rest of the evening warm in our apartment. Jenica has a TV so we watched The Little Mermaid and then Aladdin, two great classics! There are so many fun things to do here, there is so much I still haven't done.

So, here is a picture of me being soaking wet! This wasn't yesterday this is what happened on my way to the outlet malls! It sure does know how to rain here. I can't wait until I have some visitors to share all of this Disney joy with! The Itinerary is still constantly being updated!

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!!

Everything here in Florida is great! And the weather is finally starting to warm up. Today is my one day off where I thought I was going to have a chance to lay out by the pool and of course, it rained and was cloudy. Oh well, today has also been the longest amount of time I have spent in my apartment during the day, a whole 4 hours! Yeah! Yes it is a major accomplishment. Ever since I arrived everything has been go go go. But that is a good thing. Work is fun and I get to interact with some fun and not so fun guests. I feel though that after this experience in retail, I could work in any store in America!!! I have seen it all. Yesterday a man was shoving trading pins by the hundreds into his bag and left the store before security could get there, that was a sad story. Anyways...

I have still been complilingsome lists and itineraries of the must sees of Disney World. I can now say that so far the Tiki Room, The Country Bears, Stitches Adventure, Buzz Lightyear, and various other rides can be skipped. Also I have been tempted by all of the good food here at Disney! And oh boy is there a lot of it. When you are surrounded 24/7 by tourists who are constantly eating junk food, ice cream, cotton candy, and popcorn, you start to want to eat that 24/7 too!!! I think I have already put on 5 lbs. If not more! Yes those are the glorious Disney Land cookies and they can be found just about everywhere in the park! Are they trying to kill me!!!Ok so to prove my point this might sound a little confusing but, I just wrote that first half of the blog yesterday, now it is Friday morning. Let me show you what I did last night!

Yes I did partake of this huge monster. 8 scoops of ice cream, a whole can of whipped cream, cherries, strawberries, pineapple, caramels and peanut and fudge, snickers, brownies and Oreos, all combined into one huge and massive Sundae called “The Kitchen Sink”!!! Don’t worry we split it between the six of us. It was delicious though. Life here is pretty dang good, I can tell you one thing, it is going to be really boring when I come home and there is nothing to do on the weekends but go to a movie at Jordan Commons or something. Ha ha, the old life! I have made so many new friends here from all over the world, literally! It's awesome I always meet someone new everyday. Well I best be going, the gym calls, especially after what I ate last night!

Updates!!!!

All is well on the Disney home front. I had my first day on the job without a trainer yesterday and I didn't do too bad. By the way, this sweatshirt I am wearing is my pride and joy. It was a children's sweatshirt but I just bought the biggest size. It is so cute, and comes in very handy since the weather here in Florida has been really really cold. Burr!!! Last night I waited 40 min. for a bus home from work in the freezing cold and had to stand the whole 30 min. ride home on the bus! Lets just say I am just like my mother and blow dried myself for a good 1/2 hour when I got to my apartment.

Yes, I finally found Mary Poppins! There is a face character audition this Wednesday and I am debating about going, but I also have to work in the later afternoon so it is still up in the air. I have been to all the parks now and can't decide which one is my favorite. They are all very exciting and completely different. The world showcase, yummy food, and soarin at Epcot, the Safari at Animal Kingdom, Philhar Magic at Magic Kingdom, and Tower of Terror at Hollywood Studios. There are must sees in every park, so for those of you coming out to visit, be prepared for a Danny Tanner style itinerary of fun!!! I should have everything down pat by then.

By the way, I had the fish and chips at Epcot once again in England and may I say they are the best fish and chips in the world. So, so, so good. You can expect to see that on the itinerary!

Let's Put On A Show!!!!

Ok!!! So I am here in Florida! I am sorry but I haven't had time to breathe let alone post pictures on this blog. In just about five minutes I head off to my first day of training working in the Emporium on Main Street USA, in this costume mind you. I am very excited! It is the busiest and largest store however on any Disney property so it is going to be insane. Wish me luck, and have a magical day!

Disney On Ice

Oh boy oh boy! This past Wednesday the whole Wheatley clan, with the exception of Ang and Vince (we missed you guys), had the privilege to attend Disney on Ice. I had been once before, when Liz was in high school I tagged along with her and her friends, but I don't know, this Disney on Ice seemed so much more magical than I had remembered. Maybe it was because I was sitting in the audience thinking soon I will always been surrounded by Disney joy! I think I enjoyed the show more than anyone else in the entire building, no lie. To put it in the words of my father, he leaned over to me during the show and said, "Abby, it can't get any better for you, ice skating, dancing, and Disney!" He could not have been more correct. My family all knows my weird obsession with professional ice skating but I only like it so much because I know I could never do it myself. Maybe someday I will get over this obsession, if the leotards, corny music, gruesome falls, and highly feminine men don't get to me soon, then there is most likely a serious problem that needs to be paid attention to.